DAILY DIGEST

New York Times

Published
4:00 am PDT, Saturday, June 12, 2004

EA won't accept ads for Internet casinos

Electronic Arts, the Redwood City video game giant, said Friday that it had decided to stop running advertisements for Internet casinos on its Web site, delivering another blow to the online gambling industry.

Those moves follow a federal investigation into the activities of U.S. companies that do business with offshore Internet casinos. The Justice Department has argued that such companies might be "aiding and abetting" the casinos, which are seen by the department as illegal operations under federal law.